Feed Me Good will work with 2 London estates that are experiencing major regeneration work. Many residents of Aylesbury and South Acton Gardens Estates face high unemployment, poor health outcomes, isolation, and are culturally diverse communities.
We will work to increase residents’ life choices; collect residents’ memories of food and home to produce a Heritage Cookery Book and support the development of relationships to build a strong, positive community.
• Residents will meet FMG ‘in their communities’ via outreach
• FMG will take time to know residents and understand their needs
• FMG will work with these communities to build a foundation of trust that will result in strong relationships, allowing for co-production
• New and old residents will have the opportunity to get to know each other, build friendships and create an honest and robust support network
• Communities will feel closer by celebrating differences and appreciating commonalities

Feed Me Good have been working in both locations for over the last 3 years; bringing communities together through our specially tailored workshops that are aimed to develop, empower & produce independence.
Aylesbury & South Acton are both disadvantaged areas and undergoing Regeneration works. Feed Me Good wants to ensure that these communities are given the best opportunities to be strong and resilient whilst their homes are disrupted, their areas and neighbours change.
Living on the Aylesbury Estate by Social Life (commissioned by Notting Hill Housing) -
Many people living on the Aylesbury Estate are on very low incomes, and unemployment is higher than the Southwark average.
Residents tend to stick to the parts of the estate they live in or use regularly. Many longer-standing residents voice regret about the loss of community ties.
Many households are living in poverty, 39% of people interviewed in the resident's survey had a household income of between £7,001 & £14,000 a year.

Collect memories and favourite recipes from each workshop to include in the Heritage Recipe Book

Periodical Reports to show progress

End of Year Report

• Residents will feel empowered to make positive & informed choices around their lives
• Residents’ confidence & skills base will be improved
• Residents’ sense of isolation & loneliness will be reduced
• Residents will be inspired to help others through volunteering
Friendships & Loneliness - “more than 9 million people always or often feel lonely, around 200,000 older people have not had a conversation with a friend or relative in more than a month and up to 85% of young disabled adults (18-34 year olds) feel lonely”. “Weak social connection is as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day” ~ https://www.jocoxloneliness.org/
This is a time for utilising &celebrating change. However, we must be mindful of the risks that regeneration projects can be to communities if the focus falls just on the physical changes in an area. There must be a balance with attention also being given to ensuring there is a ‘sense of community’ and opportunities that can allow residents to thrive.

We would like to thank you so much for your amazing support by pledging and donations during our crowdfunding campaign.
Unfortunately, we have no choice but to end this crowdfunding exercise due to not being selected by the Mayor of London for match-funding. This decision was not made easily but we know that not receiving the match-funding will make it really hard for us to reach our target for the Heritage Project.
However, we are very passionate about working with these communities so we are now seeking other funding from a variety of sources to enable us to turn our project idea into a reality. Any cash donations received will be used to carry out our this work. The amount raised is enough to pay for £729
Thank you so much friends, family and supporters for believing in FeedMeGood and our community-based work.
Please follow us on Instagram #feedmegood and visit our website www.feedmegood.co.uk if you wish to keep up to date with us.
Lots of love from the FeedMeGood Team

59 Pledges worth £7892 months ago

Happy Nureen with Jamacian Curry Powder3 months ago

It's the simple things like knowing everyone is coming together to make things or in this case this lunch to happen. We are so grateful to out Aunties.

One of Nureen's Students Making Lentil Soup3 months ago

English Aunties, she never used spices before cooking with Nureen and Now she has a whole cupboard of them and more

South African Aunty3 months ago

ON the Salad and Suate Vegetable Prep

Jamaican Curry Chicken3 months ago

Jamacian Auntie Source the ingredients and also for the rice and peas

more pictures3 months ago

more pics

Lunch Club3 months ago

More Delicous pictures

Taster of Feed Me Good Heryiage Cookery Club3 months ago

Once a month Nureen delivers a Lunch Social for the older people at QCCA in Kentish Town, some were from sheltered homes and other attend our regular lunches as it's a way of providing them with a nutritious lunch and engagement with their peers. This month themed dinner was Jamaican food.
However, Nureen was unable to source the ingredients needed for the Lunch in the area. Our international Aunties came to the rescue they were from Jamaica, South Africa and England not only did our lovely Aunties (They said they are too young for Grandmas) come in early to help Nureen cook for 30 elderly residents from different parts of Camden and Kentish Town. Our amazing Aunties also we home to not only collect the right ingredients to make this amazing food (Also includes Jamaican Rice and Peas) but also collect equipment, As each month we have been having difficulty, however, the dishes that came out of the kitchen was incredible and well received by our hungry residents.
Nureen showed our residents the pictures from Age Exchange UK and the stories that were shared simply incredible!
This is the essence of Feed Me Good Heritage Club, bringing people together, cooking and learning from each other while sharing our memories and creating new ones.

Nureen with one of her favourite teacher Dr Delia from LSBU3 months ago

We have learnt over the years representation is important for the success of others, Dr Delia is a powerhouse in her field, she represents black excellence and through her wisdom, knowledge and guidance Nureen was able to obtain her degree in the presence of any adversity she faced during her time at LSBU. We understand in order to grow and thrive your tribe and community need to be together, you need to be open and respectful and our of many people we are are human with unique skills and talents. Let's grow and thrive together, in our community no one is left alone, everyone is welcomed and included.

This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. Before entering fundraising these costs will be confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified by the verifier.

35%

Project Manager/facilitator

£19,200

18%

Employment clinic facilitator/finance manager

£10,000

18%

Community Manager

£10,000

5%

Stationery/printing

£3,000

4%

Reminisence facilitator

£2,240

4%

Ingredients

£2,160

2%

Cooking Equipment

£1,000

2%

Consellor/transformational life coach

£900

1%

Gardener

£800

1%

Marketing

£400

10%

Other

£5,722

Spacehive fees

£2,500

Transaction Fees

£2,422

VAT

£500

Aprons

£300

Overfunding

This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on: Firstly, If Feedmegood had any extra money we would really like to have business laptops.
Secondly, all extra money will be invested into the project or to expand the project further within the community.

Total £55,422

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About the Project Creator

Feed Me Good Social CIC is a Community Interest Company with a passionate team by Nureen Glaves, who is not only the Founder but the Facilitator, who develops and delivers the projects. Our innovative team develop services for the needs of each community we with work, ensuring to be respectful & strengthen the community along the way.

We love solving issues & finding different ways to be sustainable.

We work closely with IKEA on Live Lagom Sustainably at home, Our focus was reducing food waste, meal preparation on a low budget, recycling, growing your own food & improve overall health & wellbeing. As a result, Nureen was featured in the Live Lagom Magazine, these principles leant are heavily infused in our methods & services we provide.

This idea has been on our minds for a long time. It is an extension of what we have done already. We understand that everyone has a skill and by providing a space to explore such skills opens the doors to more opportunities. We know this project would make a huge difference to these communities because they have told us so. By working with these communities further we are able to reinforce what we have already done and support residents further. We will be able to provide much-needed services to the communities, making them more inclusive, healthy and sustainable.

We want to build on these community relationships that have been developed to do more. We also realise that the regeneration has the possibility to undo some of our good work. By having a long-term presence on the estates we are able to continue working with the current residents, but also work with the new tenants that move into the areas. We will continue to do outreach on estates but also work closely with the housing providers to understand their priorities and so that our work can be promoted by them to their residents. We will also work closely with local businesses and community organisations to create links, bringing the community closer together. We will also work in partnership with London Southbank University and The National Bakery School to support those residents who want to step into education and/or employment.

Project Delivery Manager: Feed Me Good Social CIC
The Project Delivery Manager takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.

Contractors:
Age Exchange,Nottinghill Genesis Housing Association,L&Q Foundation,London Southbank University
The team responsible for building or installing the project.